The Mindful Way through Depression
by Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal and Jon Kabat-Zinn
The authors of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy explain why rumination drives relapse and teach the eight-week program that halves recurrence in people with repeated depression, with guided meditations. It is clinically grounded, gentle and one of the best-supported self-help programs in existence.
Read it if…
you have had depression more than once and want to prevent the next episode.
Skip it if…
you are in an acute episode; get care first, then this.
Three things you will actually use
- Thoughts are mental events, not facts.
- Rumination is the engine; mindfulness disengages it.
- Practice when well to protect against relapse.
Do this first
Do the three-minute breathing space twice today.
Our verdict
Evidence-based and gentle.
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